The previous all-time heat record for the entire country before this past weekend (113 degrees Fahrenheit or 45 degrees C) was broken by 8 degrees. And THAT record lasted for all of one day as it reached a shocking 121 degrees (49.5C) on June 29. According to Environment Canada, Lytton, British Columbia reached 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.1C) on June 27, setting a new all-time heat record for ALL OF CANADA! That record lasted for all of one day, as the temperature soared to 118 degrees (47.5C) on June 28. Western Canada also baked under an oppressive amount of heat. The heat reached right to the coast, too, as Quillayute, Washington, on the Pacific Ocean reached an all-time record of 110 degrees Fahrenheit, a “mere” 45 degrees above-average, beating the previous record by a mind-boggling 11 degrees! The heat was so intense that roads buckled across the Northwest.Īnd the heat didn’t stop at the US/Canada border. It reached that mark in three consecutive days in June! In fact, in the previous 126 years, Seattle had only hit 100 degrees three times.
Seattle, Washington, also had back-to-back days that set all-time heat records: 108 on June 28 after reaching 104 the day prior. All three days-108 on June 26, 112 on June 27, and 116 on June 28-set all-time heat records for the city. Portland, Oregon’s, average high temperature over this period was 112 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest three-day period on record by an astonishing 6 degrees. Over a four-day period, June 26-29, daytime high temperatures skyrocketed to well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, setting all-time records at dozens of locations. animation based on NOAA URMA data.Ī week after a heatwave broke records across the Southwest and northern Mountain West, a second, even more anomalous, heatwave occurred across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Daytime high temperatures across the western United States on June 23-28, 2021, according to data from NOAA's Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis/URMA.
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